Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is around the same size as Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 3% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (890,149 fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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